Hello everyone! Finally I am here to update our final project for this module and it is a Date block Poster! Basically, what we have to do is pick any typeface that we are interested with. Then, we are to write a brief introduction about the history, characteristics and the use the typeface and the intro have to be at most five sentences. After that, we have to insert the picture of the designer itself, letters , numbers from A to Z and 1 to 0 and finally the date block for the month and year of 2017.
Well, after making several research for my own, I decided to choose a serif typeface and it is Perpetua. Perpetual was designed by an English sculptor and stonemason, Eric Gill. Perpetua has the characteristics that features contrasts in the stroke width, crisp horizontal serifs, a delicate, harmonious colour on the page and a reasonably vertical axis. This typeface was commonly used for covers and headings and also sometimes for body text. Moreover, it was generally classified as a transitional serif font, in the vein of British fonts such as Baskerville from the late 18th century. After doing some research, ideations and exploring about this typeface, I was managed to get several inspirations from the internet to get a solid ideas on how my poster will look like. Here are some of the inspirations. :)
Some of the inspirations are taken because of the arrangement,the colour and the dynamic balance that I am searching for as Perpetua is a very well balanced typeface. Then , after doing so, I tend to illustrate and collect the infos about this typeface, then place it in the illustrator. Here are the progress of the poster.
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| Eric Gill's Portrait |
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| Progression 2 |
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| Progression 3 |
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| Final Outcome |
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Final Outcome
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After some hard time choosing which poster I should have print and mounted into A2, I decided to print the first idea as I feel that the colour, arrangement and the picture of Eric Gill suits a lot. The colour resembles Perpetua itself a lot which is harmony, arrangement is yet simple and comforting for the eye and also the portrait of Eric Gill. The reason why it is designed into prismatic and cubic form is to resembles the era of cubism which was introduced again the the 1920s and that is the time Perpetua was born. Once again, here are the final outcome of the project.
I definitely learnt a lot from this project. I was managed to imply what I researched on towards my work, create a sense of space, balance and of course heighten my sensitivity towards tiny errors. I am sad but also glad that this module has come to an end and I am looking forward to have fun project again with Mr Ken for our upper semester!
